Thames Valley Methodist Circuit
A Festival of Flowers in Celebration of "The Word"
Windsor Methodist Church held this Flower Festival in September 2015, in memory of three much loved stalwarts of the church – Gordon Franklin CVO, Tom Booth and Ruth Williams – who all died from cancer in the space of three months in 2014. All three benefitted from the excellent work of The Thames Hospice and Macmillan Cancer Support charities. This celebratory festival raised over £3640 for these charities.
The front of the sanctuary seen from the back of Windsor Methodist Church
Topiary Trees
"In the beginning was the word." (John 1 v1)
"I'll be a window in your home." (Dame Cicily Saunders, founder of the Hospice Movement
Welcome! … and "Halfway down the stairs." (A. A. Milne)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
"Do all the good you can." (John Wesley)
Dig for Victory (Ministry of Agriculture, October 1939)
"A wise man reads both books and life itself." (Chinese proverb)
Enlargement of a beautiful old book.
"In Flanders Fields"(Lt. Col. John McCrae)
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
"If you want to get ahead, get a hat." (Charles Sidney Catlin): So many shoes … only one pair of feet. (Anon)
Flower Fairies (Cicely Mary Barker)
The Bible — All the World's a Page
Screen displaying the single page bible (see next picture)
Magnifier allowing any part of the bible (over 770,000 words) to be read
In memory of Gordon." … my whole life, whether it be long or short …" (Queen Elizabeth II)
"Let us kneel before the Lord our maker." (Psalm 95)
"The flowers that bloom in the spring Tra la!" (W. S. Gilbert)
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (William Shakespeare)
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness." (John Keats)
"In the Bleak Midwinter." (Christina Rossetti)
"I have a dream." (Martin Luther King): and a flower arranger's prayer.
"Music is the poetry of the air." (Oscar Wilde)
In memory of Tom. "Nothing except a battle won …" (Duke of Wellington)
"My love is like a red, red rose." (Robert Burns)
"Mr Pickwick sits for his Portrait." (Charles Dickens)
"Doesn't that look tempting?" (Mary Berry); "That's quite adventurous." (Paul Hollywood)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Magna Carta
"… nearer God's heart in a garden ..." (Dorothy Frances Gurney)
Charles Wesley's hymns
"Never in the field of human conflict … " (Winston Churchill)
The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
Display by the "Music with Mummy" Group
Display by "Mums and Toddlers"
Sunday School display
In memory of Ruth. "One Heart One Way" (The Wesley Guild)
Display by the Men's Group
"Fellowship" (The Ladies Circle)
Flowers in the Little Chapel